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by trollian 3855 days ago
"eFOIA is currently closed. Typically, eFOIA operates Sunday through Saturday, 8am to 10pm Eastern time.

Please try again within those hours."

sigh

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Eh, you know, I wish more businesses would actually do this with their online activities. This kind of inconvenience, would force people into doing other, perhaps more fulfilling activities and remind them of the physical aspect of life -things begin and stop. I'm not saying a FOIA isn't fulfilling, but if Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, could "close down" for given times zones during a wee hours window, it might not be a bad thing. If nothing else, I'd like to see the outcomes.

Now, of course, no one is going to jeopardize sales and do that... but I'm glad some of the gov't tries to keep it's business hours based on human labor concepts. A kind of skeuochron.

Why should their schedule decide?